scott_mcleod: This looks like a great camera, especially for the price. My only disappointment is the small RAW buffer but that will only affect a tiny percentage of buyers (though with RAM being so cheap nowadays you can't help but wonder if buffer size is artifically "adjusted" to provide more model differentiation)

I also like the colors - they have an Imperial Stormtrooper version, how about olive drab, camo or day-glo orange? That would look way cool! :)

Pentax Singapore's Facebook page has images of K-30 in colors that include olive drab and orange.

scott_mcleod: This looks like a great camera, especially for the price. My only disappointment is the small RAW buffer but that will only affect a tiny percentage of buyers (though with RAM being so cheap nowadays you can't help but wonder if buffer size is artifically "adjusted" to provide more model differentiation)

I also like the colors - they have an Imperial Stormtrooper version, how about olive drab, camo or day-glo orange? That would look way cool! :)

With the K-x and K-r models a greater variety of colors were manufactured late in the production run. In the U.S., the K-r is available in nine colors at Wal-Mart.It seems possible that other colors of the K-30 will be available in several months.

diarmuid1: Can anyone tell me why Fuji havent implemented GPS into this camera?!?!Its perfect for travels/trips (except the size) and geotaging would be very usefull and desired feature! (at least for me)

Perhaps an external GPS solution similar to the Pentax O-GPS-1 will be a future option. Until then, desired geotagging must be accomplished the old-fashioned way with a hand-held GPS and Geosetter.

gap2111: according to an interview with a Nikon official the development dates back before micro43 ... given such long development time the result is rather unwhelming and way overpriced.It reminds very much on the old Pentax 110 System - which was a nice toy but didn't have much to offer

Indeed, I was also reminded of the Pentax Auto 110 which I carried with three lenses and other accessories in my handlebar bag with room to spare during long bicycle trips in the mid-1980s.Such a compact system can't, by its nature, replace a full-sized system but can offer greater versatility than a point-and shoot.Perhaps the more diminutive size will prove to be less of a provocation for some authoritarian security personnel who go into anti-photographic paroxysms at the sight of a DSLR.